I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

Thou shalt not believe something just because you can explain it.

Nothing worthwhile is ever fun.

If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed.

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing abstract stuff all through high school.

I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.